Lily Allen: I was left bed-ridden and terrified during pregnancies

Lily Allen has told how she was left bed ridden with fear during her two pregnancies over fears she would miscarry her daughters.

The singer, mum to two-year-old Ethel Mary and one-year-old Marnie Rose, has also admitted she needed to comfort eat to cope with two previous pregnancies that ended in heartache.

‘Yes, after tragically losing a child so late in to my pregnancy I may have gained a few pounds, I am one of many that find comfort in food,’ tweeted the star.

After suffering a miscarriage in 2008 and enduring a still birth in 2010, Allen refused to do any exercise to ensure her daughters arrived safely.

‘The two pregnancies that followed were terrifying because of what had happened before and I was pretty much on bed-rest for 20 months,’ the star added.

‘I wasn’t exercising because I didn’t want to take any risks, and funnily enough, the survival of my children felt more important than being thin.’

Outspoken Katie Hopkins targets Lily Allen (Picture: PA)

The 28-year-old candidly addressed her weight issues in a straight-talking tweet-a-thon after an unprovoked and vicious attack from sharp-tongued celebrity commentator Katie Hopkins.

The 2007 Apprentice hopeful sparked a nasty war of words after she told Heat magazine she reckoned Allen looks ‘pretty hideous’ for gaining two stone.

Condemning Hopkins’s ‘fat shaming’, the Hard Out Here singer retaliated: ‘Can somebody tell me what Katie Hopkins does except go on telly slagging off girls half her age? Ps Katie looks are obviously so important to you. There’s always plastic surgery ya know. Maybe they could sew your mouth up while they fix the rest of you.’

Hopkins, 38, targeted Allen after accusing her of cashing in on her father’s fame and being fickle about swapping her career for parenting.

The rent-a-gob told the magazine: ‘I quite liked her when she was singing and kind of interesting and then she went off to tell us about being a mother and that she was removing herself from the spotlight because she wanted to be a mother. And that largely involved gaining two stone and looking pretty hideous so then she decided that was boring and now she wasn’t going to be a mother any more. She was going to be a singer again.’

Having the last word, Allen retorted: ‘KatieHopkins: I am not famous for having a famous dad, I doubt that most of my fan base have a clue who my father is.’

The star then defended her figure pointing out she is a cover girl these days but then deleted her tweets.

Allen finished: ‘Oh , and whilst “weighing me up”, Fat shaming, you were a stone out, I gained 3 not 2. And hey, look I’m on the cover of Elle this month !’

Later explaining her rebuke, Allen added: ‘Sorry about that, but my babies are a touchy subject and I gave her exactly what she wanted by responding. I am now going to delete it all.’

The star recently told Elle magazine she wished she looked like Kate Moss.